Upphittat 7 februari 2018

The Secret History of Mac GamingDrawing on archive material and interviews with key figures from the era – and featuring new material from Craig Fryar, Apple’s first Mac games evangelist and the co-creator of hit game Spectre – The Secret History of Mac Gaming is the story of those communities and the game developers who survived and thrived in an ecosystem that was serially ignored by the outside world. It’s a book about people who followed their hearts first and market trends second, showing how clever, quirky, and downright wonderful video games could be.

The Washington Post to launch Retropod podcastThe Washington Post announced the launch of a new podcast, Retropod, based on the surprising and forgotten moments in history explored in the blog Retropolis. The daily audio program will launch on Feb. 12, and a preview of the first episode is available today.

Facebook hired a full-time pollster to monitor Zuckerberg’s approval ratingsTavis McGinn applied for a job at Facebook last year hoping to work in market research. He had previously spent three years at Google, where he helped large advertisers refine their marketing campaigns across the company’s family of products. But part way through the interview process at Facebook, the recruiter told McGinn the company had something else in mind for him. How would he like to track the public perception of Mark Zuckerberg?